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9th May 2017, 11:19 AM | #281 |
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Have you ever seen the documentary about Conservative reactions to the 2008 Presidential campaign "Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail"? There's a scene in it that apparently made enough of an impression that it was posted on Youtube by itself. I can't access Youtube from this computer, or I would link to it. A young man is shown wearing a t-shirt with hand-written text that accuses then-Senator Obama's policies of being Socialism (misspelled). The filmmaker asks him to define Socialism. He initially attempts to look it up on his phone, but he's pressed to simply explain it in his own words. He eventually comes up with "It's basically the policies of Hitler. It's at the midpoint between Communism and something else that I can't remember right now." |
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9th May 2017, 02:22 PM | #283 |
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But Trump promised 4%.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Reuters/s...34637849333766 Who would have thought the economy was so complex? |
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Too late to edit. This is the clip.
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9th May 2017, 02:49 PM | #287 |
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well trump just fired comey
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9th May 2017, 02:57 PM | #288 |
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I see another Liberal has been fired.
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9th May 2017, 04:00 PM | #289 |
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I did get accused of being a Trump supporter on any point where I was criticizing Hillary. Nobody ever objected to my anti-torture, gangster-state oil-thief mentality comments on Trump. When he did start making appointments, I caught the Goldman-Sachs wind and raised a red flag with that. More has come since, so maybe he is draining the swamp and filling it back in with fresh sewage.
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Now we will see if this whole thing about the US constitution, checks and balances, actually works when there is a president who clearly only cares about himself.
A few GOP senators could enter the history books now, if they have the courage. |
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9th May 2017, 11:23 PM | #291 |
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In a move that will certainly quiet the critics, Trump fired FBI director:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/po...out/index.html Or so Trump believes, anyway. There are already questions whether this was because Comey was coming too close to the truth in investigating the Trump-Russia connection. In the meantime Grand Jury issued subpoenas to associates of Flynn: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/po...sia/index.html This is not an issue that will die down until either Trump comes clean or else is milked for all it's political worth. The sad part is it just drives the country apart further, many Trumpists believe he's a swell guy, being attacked by the evil DemocRATS and so on. The hysteric anti-Bushism is coming back to haunt the Democratic party, I think. McHrozni |
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Watergate rerun.
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Difference between Trump and Nixon: then the other party controlled congress.
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logger, I'm shocked ... shocked, I tell you that you would cite Fox as a source.
Whatever, possibly you can explain where the Whites (only) House says this is their "third wave of Federal judicial appointments." OK, I'll let the single nomination of Gorsuch count as the first wave, but what was the second wave? ETA: I figured it out. The first wave was Rep refusal to consider ANY Obama nominee. |
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That's not even being consistent within a couple of paragraphs.
Obama (A democrat) compromised on his healthcare plan because that is what he could 'get done'. You just proved your own opinion is incorrect, in your own words. Also for what it's worth here in the UK Obama would be a right wing politician, your opinion of what constitutes right wing and left wing politics appears to be about as skewed as your opinion that "Dems never compromise" |
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Did you need a liberal rag to be able to swallow it?
Here https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/u...ives.html?_r=0
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It saddens me to say that, although there may be murmurings, I think that when the time comes to stand up and be counted, there will be too few Republicans willing to take a stand against party and President.
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Obama Care is based on the state system in Massachusetts from 2007 signed into law by Mitt Romney, which republicans praised him for at the time. (which is where the Romney Care label comes from, and why it's actually a republican plan originally) The whole story of how Obama Care came into being, how much it differed from what Obama actually wanted to enact during his time in office and how what eventually got signed into law got through the system is a long a torturous tale of compromise with both democrats and republicans.
There were years of debates and political wrangling between house and senate politicians from all sides over healthcare, that's how politics works. Claiming the 'repubs weren't involved' is disingenuous at best. |
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I've never seen the revision of history as this. Your first clue that republicans weren't involved is the actual vote. The second clue might be the rule change to get it passed. This folks is where the left lives, if you're a person that believes there was compromise on this legislation, you'll believe just about anything. |
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That does not mean that Obama did not negotiate with Republicans, he did.
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Trump continues to prove that he is unfit to be President of the United States. Since Trump has taken office, there has been nothing but turmoil in the White House and firings. It is mind boggling that he still embraced Flynn despite warnings.
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Small steps: 3 GOP senators vote against a Trump-supported text.
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You obviously don't understand what compromise is, reaching out to say we won, is not quite bringing the ideas of the other side in. Frankly I'm surprised you don't recognize this for what it is. Obama had the backbone to give the middle finger to the repubs and I for one respect it. He went on principle. For you to not recognize that just says you're in denial. We already know Ambrosia.
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By the way, something funny, the Ambrosia beetle is one of my arch enemies as far as logging. The little critters have ruined a lot of lumber!
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This is deeply inaccurate. Impossible to tell if you believe it or if you think it's clever false praise. Either way, it's transparently false.
Sure, he eventually gave your people the finger, but it was after he tried to accommodate their nonsense and realized that it wasn't about substance, it was about undermining the first black president every chance they get. I, for one, am glad the Republicans are such principle free ********: Obama practically begged them to give him a Grand Bargain on entitlements. Cuts to Medicare and SS would have been deadly. Fortunately, Republicans couldn't even accept what they wanted if Obama's name was attached to it. |
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Let's see:
-Included more tax cuts in stimulus because Republicans wanted it even though it was a worse form of stimulus -Attempted many times to include Republicans in health care negotiations
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